Mychodea herringtoniana Kraft & G.W.Saunders 2017
Publication Details
Mychodea herringtoniana Kraft & G.W.Saunders 2017: 250, figs 8 G, 11 D, 13 A-K
Published in: Kraft, G.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2017). Mychodea and the Mychodeaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) revisited: molecular analyses shed light on interspecies relationships in Australia's largest endemic genus and family. Australian Systematic Botany 30: 230-258, 16 figs.
Request PDFPublication date: "published online 20 October 2017"
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Mychodea is Mychodea carnosa Hooker f. & Harvey.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: "Victoria, Warrnambool" [Australia]; (Kraft & Saunders 2017: 250) Holotype: 13 Jan. 1995 (epitype) R. Kraft [née Herrington], Hb Kraft-10448; drift on Acrocarpia paniculata behind the town breakwater; HO; 586764 (Kraft & Saunders 2017: 250)
Eponomy
This species is named in honour of Rebecca Kraft (née Herrington), who made the first collections of cystocarpic thalli, ..."
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 27 November 2017 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 29 November 2017
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 29 November 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 May 2025
